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The teenager whose body was discovered in the Boston suburb of Milton, which lies below a flight path to Logan Airport, almost certainly fell from a plane, say investigators. The 16-year old North Carolina boy had most likely stowed away inside the wheel well of a jet in Charlotte and fell when it lowered its landing gear, the New York Times reports. A resident alerted authorities after hearing a loud thud. The plane landed a short time later, and a hand print was subsequently found in the wheel well where none should have been.

In addition, personal items matching descriptions given by the family were found along the flight path. While it was unclear how the boy managed to make it onto the plane, officials voiced concern over the broader security implications of the event. Said one “I suspect that there will be a lot of scrutiny into this.” Read the full article.

Authorities also found a shattered plastic card with the remains of Delvonte Tisdale. “The altitudes were very high, and it gets very cold,” said Norfolk County's district attorney. "That card was shattered into such tiny pieces that it was consistent with something that had been frozen and shattered."

This kid was dead long before the plane lowered it's gear. He would have frozen solid and/or suffocated at high altitude. Neither of which are particularly good ways to go, come to think of it. Those movies where the hero jumps into the wheel well at the last moment and somehow breaks into the cabin? Yeah, don't imitate that.

Kookey90

Dec 12, 2010 3:54 AM CST

Wow, this kid might have had an interesting story to tell his buds about his trip in the wheel well, if he had survived; unfortunately no one would have beleived him.

passinthru

Dec 12, 2010 12:58 AM CST

while theyre grabbing your crotch inside the terminals, people are getting onto planes via the friggin runway, what the eff is wrong with this picture???